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This one proves Tim Burton's an absolute master. Billy Crudup hears his dying dad (Albert Finney) recount his implausible life story. Ewan McGregor embodies the young Finney as these tall tales are realised with wow-factor wizardry: a giant, a war, a circus—it's Fellini with a colour box. The climax skilfully plays your scepticism off against your dreams, somehow allowing both to win. Small ponds of audience tears ensue.

Canadian singer-songwriter's enchanting long-player

Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton prompt begrudging smiles in this long, over-elaborate rom-com which tells the ageing intended audience what it wants to hear: you can still get laid at 60. It helps if you're Jack, here an incorrigible Lothario servicing Amanda Peet until he picks on someone his own age, her mum (Keaton, Oscar-nominated). Keanu Reeves and Fran McDormand make with the filler plot and chuckles.

Magnificent evocation of life beyond Detroit Rock City

Debut album from Jeffrey Lee Pierce's twisted blues-punk quartet remains strikingly relevant

Tragicomic genius and founding father of black American humour filmed at his peak

Alec Baldwin excels in this impressive tale of monstrous Vegas gangsters and their victims

Introduction to the work of recently reformed art/industrial/electronica collective

It's been eight years since The Day Today transferred from its original home on Radio 4 to BBC2, positioning the show's arch mischief makers Chris Morris, Steve Coogan and Armando lannucci at the vanguard of a new wave of comedians.

Second instalment of Tarantino's "roaring rampage of revenge" is a little heavy on the dialogue